;r?'g='.?1.21rENME5 C. H A P.3. Epiflle to the Thef'aloniant. V E R.3. cour thine ovine weakeneffe, with meditation of the z re- ward. î Dull lanouifhingof flefh,roufe with that affright of the Apoftles. Heb. r o.26. z Peter 2.20,21. 4 And thus thinl'te alfo,why !hall I loofe, what I haue wrought ? Ez,e. 3.20.Gal:3.4. zlohn8. 2 As its perpetuated to all time, fo enlarged to all in- iunaions; que is here equivalent to quemque. The vow of lfrael, Exod.19, 8. well pleated the Lord : Deut.5 2S. but oh that there were fuch a heart. It mull be, if euer we thinke to enioy our God, to (hare in thefe priuiledges of his people. See Pfal. 119.6. lames 2.10. cilvlatth. 5. 19. Lukei.6. eIs 2K.,aaman, fo muff Chriflians ; a Lord bee mercifull veto me in thii, our obedience is croa what with referua- tion. b Herod in many things obeye'the Baptia but muff be borne with for Herodias. The refufè of the cattell, the rafcall people Saal deflroyes, but c the heft andfadings, are refereed for Sacrifice. Hypocrite; for meant he, trow you, to facrifice t Motato nomine de to narrator, not tabula, but higoria. Wee allo haue our fadings of finnes ; our fadings from difobedience. Herein the Lord mutt bee mercifitll veto vs : we refolue to be cruell to our felues ; forgetting the wife mans counfell,il'lif rere anima tua bonum faciens. Thefe rules let vs remember. r On paine of damnation, the charge lyes on vs to f retch our obedience, as farre as our knowledge. lohn r z. t7. Luke 1 2.47. In fome particulars, later good raflas eft. Yet for fuch, d ignorances were facrifices offered; and `Da. nid prayes, C cleattfiag for fecret finnes : both intimate our hones of inuincible ignorance to bee damnable in the me- rit; how much more thinke you our fumes of knowledge. Yet pardon may be hoped for ignorances; not fo for habi- ted, or cuflomarie fumes of knowledge. 2 Willing ignorance, is quoad rearm, knowledgein- terpretatiue. What thou maya know to bee duetie, and wilt not, God interprets thee to know : the omillions bee will impute and punifh as omillions of knowledge. Wherein we loue to lime, therein we loue alto to be igno- rant : 239 i'rlcb,tz.z. Vfe. a King, 5.18. b Mar.6,zo, ° r Sam.15.9. zl,zo. dNuu1.t5.24a a5.a6, 17,3o, . n;à1.19.Iz.
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